Dish puts its HD channel list up for evaluation

After being called out by competitor DirecTV on its supposed counting shenanigans, Dish's only option was to put its list of channels on the web for easy comparison. We've also dropped the list in after the break for you to look, count and be impressed (or not.) We're not sure if anyone is really that moved by pure numbers at this point, whether or not a provider has the one channel you want instead of five you don't seems to be the key these days. Is having the most linear HD available what you're looking for, or is something else keeping you paying the service charge each month?

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1. 5StarMAX HD
2. A&E HD
3. ABC Family HD
4. ActionMAX HD
5. Altitude
6. Animal Planet HD
7. BBC America HD
8. BET HD
9. Big Ten Network HD ²
10. Biography HD
11. Bravo HD
12. Cartoon Network (East) HD
13. CBS College Sports HD
14. Centric HD
15. Cinemax (East) HD
16. Cinemax (West) HD
17. CMT HD
18. CNBC HD
19. CNN HD
20. Comedy Central HD
21. Crime & Investigation HD
22. CSN Bay Area
23. CSN California
24. CSN Chicago
25. CSN Mid-Atlantic
26. CSN New England
27. Discovery Channel HD
28. Disney (East) HD
29. Disney XD HD
30. E! Entertainment Television HD
31. Encore (East) HD
32. EPIX 1 HD
33. ESPN HD
34. ESPN2 HD
35. ESPNEWS HD
36. Fashion TV HD
37. Food Network HD
38. Fox Arizona
39. Fox Business Network HD
40. Fox Cincinatti
41. Fox Detroit
42. Fox Florida
43. Fox Mid-West
44. FOX News Channel HD
45. Fox North
46. Fox Northwest
47. Fox Ohio
48. Fox Pittsburgh
49. Fox Rocky Mountain
50. Fox Soccer Channel HD
51. Fox South
52. Fox Southwest
53. Fox West
54. FX HD
55. G4 HD
56. Golf Channel HD
57. Hallmark Channel HD
58. Hallmark Movie Channel HD
59. HBO (East) HD
60. HBO (West) HD
61. HBO Comedy HD
62. HBO Family HD
63. HBO Latino HD
64. HBO Signature HD
65. HBO Zone HD
66. HBO2 (East) HD
67. HD Theater
68. HDNet
69. HDNet Movies
70. HGTV HD
71. History HD
72. History International HD
73. HLN HD
74. IndiePlex HD
75. Lifetime HD
76. Lifetime Movie Network HD
77. LOGO HD
78. MAVTV HD
79. MGM HD
80. msnbc HD
81. MTV HD
82. Nat Geo Wild HD
83. National Geographic Channel HD
84. NBA TV HD
85. New England Sports Network
86. NFL Network HD
87. NHL Network HD
88. Nickelodeon HD
89. Palladia HD
90. Planet Green HD
91. Prime Ticket
92. RetroPlex HD
93. Science Channel HD
94. SHortsHD
95. Showtime (East) HD
96. Showtime (West) HD
97. Showtime Showcase HD
98. Showtime Too HD
99. SPEED HD
100. Spike TV HD
101. Sports South
102. Sportsman Channel HD
103. SportsNet New York
104. SportsTime Ohio
105. Starz (East) HD
106. Starz (West) HD
107. Starz Comedy HD
108. Starz Edge HD
109. Starz Kids and Family HD
110. Style HD
111. Sun Sports
112. Syfy HD
113. TBS HD
114. Tennis Channel HD
115. The Movie Channel (East) HD
116. TLC HD
117. TNT HD
118. Travel Channel HD
119. truTV HD
120. Turner Classic Movies HD
121. Universal HD
122. USA HD
123. Versus HD
124. VH1 HD
125. Weather Channel HD
126. WGN America HD
127. World Fishing Network HD
128. ABC
129. CBS
130. FOX
131. NBC
132. Plus 74 DISH Cinema HD channels

[buck11772 Posted Apr 23rd 2010 3:22PM]

206 - 74 DISH Cinema HD channels - 20 or so part time on RSN channels = 112. Try again Dish with real full time on HD channels. FiOS has 162 full time on HD channels with no PPV added.

[SpongeBobPistolPants Posted Apr 23rd 2010 4:36PM]

@buck11772 right on, cause the only thing that matters is pure volume! f'em until they have like 500HD channels!

[SpongeBobPistolPants Posted Apr 23rd 2010 4:45PM]

The race to have the MOST HD CHANNELS is kind of like a mixed up race to the bottom.... Now you will be glad to see you can watch the World Fishing Network HD and even Palladia HD. Wake me up when i can get my GEMS AND JEWELRY channel or my home shopping network in HD.

[UnnDunn Posted Apr 23rd 2010 4:53PM]

I do believe DirecTV just got told. Your move, DirecTV.

Personally, I don't have either service nor do I intend to get them any time soon. But this corporate slapfight is fun to watch.

[shetaan819 Posted Apr 23rd 2010 5:18PM]

The fact is that except for full-time RSNs (sports) Dish has every channel in HD that the majority of people look at when looking to switch providers...unfortunately, Dish isn't very good at advertising and positioning themselves and try to beat DirecTV on the numbers game rather than simply pointing out that your average Dish user now doesnt have very many (if any) SD channels in their Favorites guide - DirecTV customers cant even make this comparison as they can't create their own custom Favorites menu and of course dont have all of these HD channels...and Comca$t won't be able to completely rollout these HD channels nationwide for years to come so no comparison there....(hey, Comcast On Demand fans, if you actually had these HD channels you could just set a Season Pass for those shows you like rather than wishing/hoping Comcast's OnDemand system gets your shows and keeps them there as long as you need them).....

[LazarusDark Posted Apr 24th 2010 12:22PM]

@shetaan819
Are you kidding me? Directv doesn't have a favorites option? I didnt even realize.
After finally ditching Comcast for life last year, I got Dish. They have better equipment in my opinion (getting a Sling-loaded dvr next month), and the HD channel listing at the time was the main factor in choosing Dish. There's maybe only two channels now that I ever watch that aren't in HD yet (G4 and Current).

[mcryans Posted Apr 26th 2010 11:42AM]

@shetaan819
Uh, I've been using favorites lists with DirecTV for years now. And unlike Dish I don't have to filter out the SD duplicates. It gives me the option to do it automatically. As far as the channels go, there are only a couple missing that I would actually watch and they are being added next month. So, this is all a mute point.

[blueboy09 Posted Apr 23rd 2010 5:48PM]

I have Dish Network and I have seen some added channels (G4 HD, CI HD to name a few), but I would like to see 1080p on these channels, I have a HDTV that supports this resolution, and I would like to use it, dammit! If they can do this w/On Demand, then why not regular channels, and don't tell me that they don't have the bandwidth, cause w/the money that we customers are paying to DN, there's no reason why they can't.

[shetaan819 Posted Apr 23rd 2010 7:50PM]

@blueboy09

Its up to the content providers to provide 1080p and unfortunately for all of us, they simply arent providing it, its not a Dish Network decision...

[iPaul Posted Apr 26th 2010 12:20AM]

@blueboy09 not a dish issue. it's the HD roll out that is a JOKE!
It's the same issue on Cable and Sat.

There is Zero 1080p

[Dr Blight Posted Apr 23rd 2010 6:39PM]

Dish Network > DirecTV.

I thought we settled this.

[thanatos465 Posted Apr 23rd 2010 7:42PM]

Dish Network is years ahead of Directv

[Mr Plow Posted Apr 23rd 2010 7:59PM]

The only thing Dish is doing wrong is not providing sports networks. Everything else is great but I want my MLB channel.

[Axtell Posted Apr 24th 2010 12:56AM]

Dish doesn't have the money needed to offer its customers MLB network, as its a very expensive channel to add.

As far as who has the 'most' HD channels, it does become a 'who cares?' at some point, but you'd think that general integrity would prevent a carrier from calling on-demand, PPV, or part time channels as 'high def', but it appears that Dish doesn't get it.

And Dish network is > DirecTV? How so? Its not in features (whole home DVR, DVR on PC, remote DVR app for iPhone), its not in HD channels (as we've just covered) and it sure as hell isn't picture quality of DVR features.

Next?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2010 7:01AM]

How do you tell which ones are part-time? Or are RSNs counted as part-time by default even because only parts of their content are SD. Or does Dish do what Comcast did with FS Detroit and only run the channel during live sporting events?

[skinney23 Posted Apr 28th 2010 7:29PM]

I have DishNetwork. No problems here.

[Jeff Kibuule Posted Apr 29th 2010 12:05AM]

I'll sign up for the first satellite provider which implements Windows Media Center compatibility. Both companies were thinking about it (and made test hardware) but none went to market.

No WMC, no sale. Simple as that.